Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shares and warrants should be reported as part of shareholders ' funds . |
| 2 | Such an aggregate will only equal the value of total output if those goods which are produced but not sold are also included — this item , which is called ‘ net changes in stocks and work in progress ’ , is normally counted as part of firms ' investment spending ( which is logical since such goods are for future rather than current consumption ) . |
| 3 | Only 20 per cent , however , were willing to assume any responsibility for payment of teachers ' salaries . |
| 4 | In the case of a demand for payment of solicitors ' costs , one of the circumstances will be the date when the bill was served and the client 's attitude towards taxation of the bill . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many more people would be liable for payment of employees ' national insurance contributions if the atypical work directive were adopted . |
| 6 | The Court heard that one of the directors had acted while an undischarged bankrupt , aided and abetted by the others , and that they had caused the company to trade without reasonable prospect of payment of creditors ' claims , to retain Crown monies to finance insolvent trading and to abuse banking procedures . |
| 7 | The Companies Act 1985 , requires a general policy of disclosure of insiders ' interests . |
| 8 | It is not thought likely that this would give rise to any greater risk of breach of confidentiality of clients ' affairs than that involved with the rest of the staff . |
| 9 | Watching actors in animal costume making their sophisticated jokes was like proof of anthropologists ' statements , as typified by Frazer in that same conclusion to The Dying God , where he stated that serious rites had become idle amusement , mummeries , and childish games . |
| 10 | Many of the more intractable problems involved with merger of solicitors ' firms will be within the province of the accountancy profession : and the best advice as to how to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable will be obtained not through the pages of any book but from a fellow professional who has actually and successfully observed the process at first hand . |
| 11 | If , however , estimates are made which take into account need for medical care , then the association between use of doctors ' services and socio-economic group becomes stronger . |
| 12 | It issued a strike threat in support of demands for rises in pensions and wages , a programme for dealing with unemployment and in defence of workers ' interests in the context of privatization . |
| 13 | On May 28 four people were killed when a demonstration in Freetown by students in support of teachers ' demands was broken up by police after a police station had been stoned ; earlier a meeting attempting to establish an independent teachers ' union was also broken up by the authorities . |
| 14 | A solicitor in receipt of directors ' fees from his family company , however , would be under no duty to account to his co-partners in the absence of express agreement to that effect . |
| 15 | An educational Bill of Rights would not stand in place of students ' legal entitlements ; students would , as now , still have the right to pursue a legal claim if they felt themselves to be the victim of an in justice . |
| 16 | Co-ordination between subjects was lacking and the whole overloaded and exceptionally ambitious in scope requiring , moreover , a scale of expenditure well in excess of schools ' ability to pay for it . |
| 17 | The limit in respect of visitors ' personal effects is increased from £100 to £250 . |
| 18 | Is he aware that there are problems not only in respect of teachers ' salaries , actual as opposed to average , but in respect of responsibility for the funding of the older village primary schools which predominate in rural areas ? |
| 19 | the financial statements comply with Sch 6 of the Companies Act 1985 in respect of directors ' emoluments and other transactions involving directors ; |
| 20 | While the uncovered debts of the banks in respect of residents ' foreign exchange deposits are known more or less precisely , the amount of the banks ' other uncovered foreign liabilities is a matter of guesswork . |
| 21 | Payments may also be made by companies in respect of expatriates ' properties in the home country . |
| 22 | However , my master plan is invariably dropped in favour of readers ' questions . |
| 23 | We may agree with Cole 's conclusion that the resolution of the debate in favour of Consumers ' control was right at the time , but on ground of practical necessity . |
| 24 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |
| 25 | Despite an agreement reached in late August that files of the East German State Security police ( " Stasi " ) would remain in East Germany after unification [ see p. 37661 ] , the question in particular of MPs ' and ministers ' alleged Stasi involvement remained a major issue . |
| 26 | The starting point of the research is the fact that very little formal school derived knowledge may be used in discussion of pupils ' reactions to scientific issues in the public domain . |
| 27 | Curiously however , the three traditional lecturers with whom I discussed the matter insisted that the plurality made no difference to assessment of students ' work ; in the words of Mr R : |
| 28 | Secondly , it will comment on working-age women 's access to membership of employers ' pension schemes and the extent to which it appears that their risk of poverty in retirement may have lessened , both by increased access in their own right and through improved provision for widows . |
| 29 | Other research , by child psychologist Dorothy Cohen , found that extensive TV viewing led to atrophy of childrens ' imaginations . |
| 30 | The first one on behalf of Parish Council and then the second one on behalf of Residents ' Association . |